At 10:45 AM 6/1/98 EDT, you wrote:
Do you know if the HyGain TH11DX suffers from this same problem??
> We found a similar problem with our TH7 during our tribander comparison
>test. The interesting part was that the GAIN of the antenna on 15M was very
>high so this ought to put to rest the necessity for having a 1:1 swr for
>maximum performance.
>
> I talked to Roger Cox at Hy-Gain and he said that users have had some
>success by moving the feedpoint hardware around. Apparently the proximity of
>the parts has something to do with it.
>
> Nonetheless, the antenna still plays very well even with higher than
>'normal' swr so put a transmatch in line (if you need it) and go nuts! No
>penalty performance incurred.
>
>Cheers, Steve K7LXC
>
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